Today The Guardian had this story of the CIA requiring doctors and nurses to participate in the mistreatment of detainees. Here is also a link for more info about the report and the members of the committee who wrote it.
One commentator wrote that this story just made him or her sick. As humans, we should all feel at least some of that emotion over the torture of other humans. and outrage over the shame of health professionals participating in this in any way, shape or form.
Will those involved ever be held to account? Those involved always seem to want to shield themselves from any consequences. But at the very least we should all be raising our voices to see that such practice stop immediately and never resume.
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ReplyDeleteThat Guardian story was the other day, but I had problems publishing.
Don't know if everything is now fixed, but at least I got it published and things seem ok again.